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September is Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15â€“October 15) in the United States
is the period when people recognize the contributions of Hispanic
Americans to the United States and to celebrate Hispanic Cultural
heritage and Hispanic culture. Hispanic Heritage Week was approved by
President Lyndon Johnson and was expanded by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 to cover a 31-day period. It was enacted into law on August 17, 1988 on the approval of Public Law100-402.

Hispanic Heritage Month also celebrates the long and important
presence of Hispanic Americans in North America. A map of late 18th
century North America shows this presence, from the small outpost of San Francisco founded in the desolate wilderness of Alta California in 1776, through the Spanish province of Texas with its vaqueros (cowboys), to the fortress of St. Augustine, Florida -- the first continuous European settlement in North America founded in 1565, decades before Jamestown, Virginia.

Spanish explorers traveled further north along the Pacific Coast to
Canada in 1774 and by the late 18th century had established a military
post on Vancouver Island, 350 miles north of Seattle. The Spanish sailed up the Atlantic Coast through the Chesapeake Bay
in 1526, then called the BahÃ­a de Santa MarÃ­a, about 80 years before
the romanticized English encounter with Pocahontas. In the 1520s Spanish
navigators also explored as far north as Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and
the present site of Bangor, Maine. The Spanish settled the southwest of
North America in the 16th century and officially founded Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610.

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